The burgeoning field of statistical phylogeography

MINI REVIEW The burgeoning field of statistical phylogeography

In the newly emerging field of statistical phylogeography, consideration of the stochastic nature of genetic processes and explicit reference to theoretical expectations under various models has dramatically transformed how historical processes are studied. Rather than being restricted to ad hoc explanations for observed patterns of genetic variation, assessments about the underlying evolutiona...

The burgeoning field of ablatogenomics.

Statistical phylogeography.

While studies of phylogeography and speciation in the past have largely focused on the documentation or detection of significant patterns of population genetic structure, the emerging field of statistical phylogeography aims to infer the history and processes underlying that structure, and to provide objective, rather than ad hoc explanations. Methods for parameter estimation are now commonly u...

Human Computation: Charting The Growth Of A Burgeoning Field

The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequately supported by an overarching framework with which to understand each new system in the context of the old. We give a human computation classification system that can help identify parallels between different syste...

AMOVA and Statistical phylogeography

ij xixjδij , where xi is the frequency of the ith haplotype and δij is the fraction of nucleotides at which haplotypes i and j differ. It shouldn’t come to any surprise to you that just as there is interest in partitioning diversity within and among populations when we’re dealing with simple allelic variation, i.e., Wright’s F -statistics, there is interest in partitioning diversity within and ...